Lake County Opinion
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Airline employees subsidizing low faresApr 06, 2008 11:00 pm - After years of huge losses, poor service, passenger inconvenience, the destruction of airline employees' retirements and quality of life, along with the continued increa...
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Kirk is on right side of FISA billApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Right now there is legislation pending in Congress that is known as FISA. Its focus is U.S. government surveillance of phone calls between suspected terrorists. Dan Seal...
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Educators aren't just principals, teachersApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Now comes the story of Al Weber. Weber, as Daily Herald reporter Sheila Ahern wrote last week, was not what we normally think of when we hear the word educator. He was ...
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Fire chief's sudden departureApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - The sudden departure of John Wu as Naperville's fire chief raises all sorts of questions this week as to exactly what happened and why. Rumors, of course, are flying all...
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Paper's out of touch with its readersApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - As usual, I find myself strongly disagreeing with your position on this issue ("No simple solution to overcrowding," March 27). While overcrowding is a problem, I have t...
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Ultimately, public must clean up messApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Once again we hear about our friend Todd Stroger, Cook County Board president, who just gave his cousin a 12 percent raise. His cousin's battle cry before the election ...
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Put more emphasis on flood controlApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - Is there anyone in the suburbs who isn't ready for spring weather to arrive? Well, maybe. People living near the overflowing Chain O' Lakes and the Fox and Des Plaines r...
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Nuclear repeal plan a bad ideaApr 05, 2008 11:00 pm - It's fitting that state Rep. JoAnn Osmond (61st District, Antioch) picked April 1st to introduce an amendment to the Public Utilities Act repealing the moratorium on new...
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Saturday Soapbox: Homing inApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - Potential adopters don't have to pay an adoption fee and adoptees don't have to submit to a bunch of inoculations, but the annual Adopt-a-Cougar program is all about fin...
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Saturday Soapbox: End of an era at CLCApr 04, 2008 11:00 pm - The Richard Fonte era at College of Lake County is over, and not a moment too soon. Fonte was hired as the college president in December 2006, but lasted only six months...